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November 24, 2020FOOD SERVICES AND DRINKING PLACES, SEPTEMBER 2020
Month-over-Month (Sep 2020 vs Aug 2020, seasonally adjusted)
- Nova Scotia food services and drinking places receipts increased 3.3% to $119.5 million.
- Canada's food services and drinking places receipts increased 1.8% to $5.1 billion.
- All provinces reported monthly increases in food services and drinking places, with
- Prince Edward Island (11.7%) reporting the largest gain, and
- Quebec (0.03%) reporting the smallest gain in percentage terms.
Year-over-Year (Sep 2020 vs Sep 2019, seasonally adjusted)
- Nova Scotia food services and drinking places receipts decreased 19.3%.
- Canada's food services and drinking places receipts decreased 20.2%.
- All of the provinces reported year-over-year decreases in food services and drinking place receipts, with
- Saskatchewan (-4.6%) reporting the smallest decline and
- Ontario (-24.0%) reporting the largest decline in percentage terms.
Year-to-Date (Jan-Sep 2019 vs Jan-Sep 2020, seasonally adjusted)
- Nova Scotia food services and drinking places receipts decreased 25.4% (-$335.4 million).
- Canada's food services and drinking places receipts decreased 27.0% (-$15.5billion).
- All of the provinces reported year-to-date decreases in food services and drinking place receipts, with
- Saskatchewan (-17.7%) reporting the smallest decline and
- Ontario (-30.3%) reporting the largest decline in percentage terms.
Quarter-over-quarter (2020Q3 vs 2020Q2, seasonally adjusted)
- Nova Scotia food services and drinking places receipts increased 40.9% ($101.2 million).
- Canada's food services and drinking places receipts increased 50.4% ($5.0billion).
- All provinces reported quarter over quarter increases in food services and drinking place receipts, with
- Prince Edward Island (25.1%) reporting the smallest gain and
- Quebec (70.5%) reporting the largest gain in percentage terms.
Long-run Trend
Canada and Nova Scotia (2012 to 2020, seasonally adjusted)
Nova Scotia's Food services and drinking places month over month sales declined sharply in March 2020 (-32.5%) and April 2020 (-38.7%). Recovery began with rapid gains in May 2020 (+31.8%) and June 2020 (+34.7%). Compared to February 2020, Nova Scotia's September 2020 Food services and drinking places sales were still -18.0% below their pre-pandemic levels.
National food services and drinking places sales continued to rebound for the fifth consecutive month but are still -20.6% below pre-pandemic levels. All provinces report food services and drinking places sales remain between -6.9 % to -24.5% below February 2020 levels.
NOVA SCOTIA SECTORS
Nova Scotia Year-to-date Sales by Establishment Type (Jan- Sep 2020 vs Jan-Sep 2019, unadjusted for seasonality)
Compared with Jan-Sep 2019, the reductions in food service and drinking place receipts have been most pronounced for Nova Scotia's full-service resturants (-$230.2 million). In year-to-date percentage terms, the declines have been more severe for drinking places (-52.6%) and full-service restaurants (-43.7%), with a smaller decline for limited service eating places (-12.2%).
- Limited-service eating places, decreased 12.2% (-$82.4 million)
- Full-service restaurants decreased 43.7% (-$230.2 million)
- Special food services decreased 39.6% (-$32.4 million)
- Drinking places -alcoholic beverages decreased 52.6% (-$20.1 million)
Source: Statistics Canada. Table 21-10-0019-01 Monthly survey of food services and drinking places (x 1,000)
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